Posts Tagged "spam"

Here’s a question to which we kinda already know the answer: I was asked this when I unsubscribed for an Intuit mailing list I hadn’t signed up for. I did start using QuickBooks online, which I’m mostly liking (despite my insane problems with their payroll service and cancelling it… including having to cancel payroll when […]

I apologise that it accidentally looks like “pick on one company in particular” week, but this was too interesting to not mention. This was in my LinkedIn news feed Sunday (2 days ago) after lunch. I was being fed it because one of my LinkedIn connections commented on it. The guy I know posted a […]

This happened. How? Why? Which part of “unsubscribe me” makes it sound like I want to be on this list for 10 more days? How is it that your email system doesn’t email who’s on your list when it’s time to send? Does that mean your email list is sending to people who opted out […]

I’m thinking this isn’t a real person. Or is she. Click to enlarge:

I believe in personal cover letters. When I look at a job or contract, I write a cover letter that best describes me based on the job, company, etc… I don’t copy/paste the same thing to everybody. I address people by name where I know their names. I also keep a Zoho database of the […]

I don’t even know where to start with this one. A company I’ve never heard of sends me an email. It starts with “first of all” and some sort of pleasantry about their deepest sympathies going out to the people affected by the Oklahoma tornadoes. Um OK, who are you? And then it goes RIGHT […]

Just a few days ago, I wrote about one of the many scams you can encounter on Facebook. This is one where people want to be your friend, and then one outcome is they might use this information to send more realistic looking spam or phishing emails. They now come from someone you know rather […]

Spam emails. Most of them are easily forgotten. I got one recently that was SO oddly worded and so angry, I had to share it with you for the laugh. I blurred out the website name they linked. It’s one of those “Everyone can achieve financial freedom!” scam sites. Something to do with binary options, […]

I’m used to spambots on Twitter. Ignore. or Ignore and report as a spammer. But a whole new type of spammer got me this past weekend. A human. A real live person. It started when some guy tweeted my web design company seeming to be interested in us doing a lot of manual work on […]

Some people seem to think that it’s OK to advertise products (over and over) to your Facebook friends. NOT dropping promotional messages on a business page, where people might expect them. For all we know, this was between a cat picture and a post about politics. This was on a personal page. I’ll post the […]